---
name: "Allen McNeil"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/allen-mcneil"
roles: ["Editor"]
born: "22 June 1893"
died: "26 December 1971"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 77
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-09-20T01:02:15.022207+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Allen McNeil

Editor. Born 22 June 1893 in Pasadena. Died 26 December 1971.

## Details

- **Work:** Editor
- **Born:** 22 June 1893, Pasadena
- **Died:** 26 December 1971
- **Active:** 1934–1943
- **Frequently works with:** [Nunnally Johnson](https://film.one/person/nunnally-johnson.md)
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1930s 70 (1), 1940s 84 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q108072578, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0573865/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/14649

## Biography

Allen McNeil was an American film editor. Born on 22 June 1893 in Pasadena, California, he worked in Hollywood from the silent era into the 1940s.

His editing credits include *The House of Rothschild* (1934), *Man Hunt* (1941), *The Ox-Bow Incident* (1943), *The Freshman* (1925) and *The Kid Brother* (1927). He also received writing credits on *My Best Girl* (1927) and *Coquette* (1929).

McNeil died on 26 December 1971 in Los Angeles, California.

*Sources: imdb.com, catalog.afi.com.*

## On Fi1m (2)

- *The Ox-Bow Incident* (1943), Fi1m 84, Editor — [page](https://film.one/film/the-ox-bow-incident.md)
- *The House of Rothschild* (1934), Fi1m 70, Editor — [page](https://film.one/film/the-house-of-rothschild.md)

## Complete filmography (36)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *The Ox-Bow Incident* (1943), Editor — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/film/the-ox-bow-incident.md)
- *The Pied Piper* (1942), Editor
- *To the Shores of Tripoli* (1942), Editor
- *Rise and Shine* (1941), Editor
- *Week-End in Havana* (1941), Editor
- *Man Hunt* (1941), Editor
- *Tall, Dark and Handsome* (1941), Editor
- *The Gorilla* (1939), Editor
- *Tail Spin* (1939), Editor
- *My Lucky Star* (1938), Editor
- *Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm* (1938), Editor
- *This Is My Affair* (1937), Editor
- *On the Avenue* (1937), Editor
- *White Hunter* (1936), Editor
- *Private Number* (1936), Editor
- *It Had to Happen* (1936), Editor
- *Thanks a Million* (1935), Editor
- *Folies Bergère de Paris* (1935), Editor
- *The Mighty Barnum* (1934), Editor
- *Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back* (1934), Editor
- *The House of Rothschild* (1934), Editor — Fi1m 70, [page](https://film.one/film/the-house-of-rothschild.md)
- *Advice to the Lovelorn* (1933), Editor
- *The Bowery* (1933), Editor
- *Du Barry, Woman of Passion* (1930), Editor
- *Coquette* (1929), Adaptation, Screenplay
- *Tempest* (1928), Editor
- *My Best Girl* (1927), Screenplay
- *The Kid Brother* (1927), Editor
- *For Heaven's Sake* (1926), Editor
- *The Freshman* (1925), Editor
- *Hot Water* (1924), Editor
- *Girl Shy* (1924), Editor
- *The Shriek of Araby* (1923), Editor
- *Suzanna* (1923), Editor
- *Gymnasium Jim* (1922), Editor
- *Love, Honor and Behave* (1920), Editor

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